For the past 8 years or so I've made it a habit to take part in the annual tradition of list-making. It's this odd, therapeutic activity that for some reason helps me find my place in life and orients me in the new year.

This year I attempted to limit my list to 25 albums. I failed.

What follows is my Top 30 albums of 2015, as well as a bunch of other albums that may have made it onto that list had I woke up on the other side of the bed or possibly if the moon at a different point in its cycle when I made the list.

Stay tuned for another similar post later this week by a special guest!

Top 30 Albums of 2015

1. Tame Impala - Currents

2. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

3. Jamie XX - In Colour

4. Father John Misty - I Love You Honey Bear

5. Will Butler - Policy

6. Ryan Adams - 1989

7. Wilco - Star Wars

8. Grimes - Art Angels

9. Patrick Watson - Love songs for Robots

10. Tobias Jesso Jr. - Goon

11. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly

12. Lord Huron - Strange Trails

13. EL VY - EL VY

14. Baio - The Names

15. Punch Brothers - Phosphorescent Blues

16. BØRNS - BØRNS

17. Alabama Shakes - Color & Sound

18. Purity Ring - Another Eternity

19. JD McPherson - Let the Good Times Roll

20. Beach House - Depression Cherry

21. Kurt Vile - believe i’m going down

22. Night Beds - Ivywild

23. On An On - And the Wave Has Two Sides

24. Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars

25. Bob Moses - Days Gone By

26. Of Monsters and Men - Beneath the Skin

27. Coldplay - A Head Full of Dreams

28. Dawes - All Your Favorite Bands

29. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Surf

30. My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall

Other Amazing 2015 Albums (including a handful of albums my friends made, of which I am a bit too biased about to put onto the other list but impacted me JUST AS MUCH, if not more that the previous 30)